Vice President Leni Robredo, who has been the focus of a lot of fake news ahead of the presidential election in May 2022, dispelled rumors on Sunday that she married a communist guerrilla when she was 15 years old.
Robredo claimed in a Facebook post that she had been called various names since being elected vice president in 2016.
“Hindi ako tinantanan ng fake news mula 2016 hanggang ngayon. I’ve been called many names – mandaraya sa election (hello??), lugaw, bobo, buntis, kabit, lutang, etc. Ni minsan, hindi ko hinayaan maging sagabal ito sa trabaho ko. Pinaghusayan ko pa din kahit pinapahirapan ako,” she said.
She claimed that the most recent lie being circulated on social media is that she married when she was 15 and that her husband was a CPP-NPA member who perished in battle. She claims the falsehood has “mutated” to include a boy she claims she abandoned. This was apparently before she married Jesse Robredo, the late Interior Secretary.
On the other hand, Robredo noted that she was only in her third year of high school when she was 15 and that she had never taken a leave of absence until she was 21 when she graduated from college.
She claimed to have spent four years in the University of the Philippines Dormitory, with all of her roommates being female.
Leni Robredo denies fake news she married CPP-NPA rebel at 15
“Nakilala ko si Jesse (Robredo) after graduation at kinasal kami TWICE when I was 22,” she added.
The Vice President has also refuted rumors that she has allied herself with communist leader Jose Ma. Sison, which were propagated by SMS blasts.
Robredo explained that she does not believe in employing violence to solve problems. It is not true that if she wins the upcoming elections, she will form a coalition government with the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF).
“Para klaro: kasinungalingan ito,” she said.
“Once and for all: Kaliwa, kanan, taas, baba, lahat handa tayong pakinggan — basta tapat, mapayapa, at handang magtrabaho para iangat ang buhay ng Pilipino,” Robredo added.
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